Etymology · Ancient Greek
ἀλήθεια
8 English words descend from Ancient Greek ἀλήθεια, most common first.
- AletheaA personification of truth in Greek philosophy.
- AlethaA female given name.
- alethicOf or pertaining to the various modalities of truth, such as the possibility or impossibility of something being true.
- alethiologyThe branch of logic dealing with truth and error.
- aletho-true, truth
- alethoscopeAn instrument, invented in the 1860s, for viewing magnified pictures by means of a single lens inside a box. By varying the intensity of the light, the same picture can be shown as "daytime" or "nighttime".
- dialetheiaA statement that is both true and false; a true contradiction.
- dialetheismThe theory that statements can be both true and false at the same time and in the same sense. The opposite of the law of noncontradiction.